[Between 23 and 30 September 1921]

**FACE OF KUZBAS**
4 3
269331

LETTER TO V. V. KUIBYSHEV.
[Between 23 and 30 September 1921]

Comrade Kuibyshev!

I am sending you a copy of Comrade Reinstein's telegram to me.

Regarding § 3* — please provide a note on what exactly was settled with Rutgers?

Is there a text of the agreement? It must be sent to me immediately.

Regarding § 1*: the matter is extremely urgent. I ask you to show this § 1 to Comrade Bogdanov and give me his (and if necessary, your) assessment as quickly as possible: where is the bottleneck?

It is necessary to finish with Hammer as s o o n a s p o s s i b l e and conclude an agreement on the concession.

[signed] V. I. Lenin.

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1 B. I. Reinstein, before his arrival in Soviet Russia, was a member of the organization "Industrial Workers of the World," then of the American Socialist Labor Party. From 1918 — a communist.

2 Hammer — American entrepreneur, the first concessionaire in the USSR.

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# TELEGRAM TO L. K. MARTAENSU.
Yekaterinburg.
[27 September 1921]

Transmit by telegraph to Nizhny Tagil to Martaensu that Rutgers insists on an immediate decision of his matter regarding the transfer of a part of Kuzbas and the Nadezhdinskii plant to a group of American workers, justifying the urgency by the necessity for the representative of Calvert's group to depart for America immediately. I am in difficulty, in view of your request to postpone until your arrival, for I would not wish to decide without you. Inform me: first, when you will be in Moscow; second, how you assess in substance Rutgers's haste — do you consider it truly absolutely urgent to render an immediate decision, or do you advise insisting that Rutgers wait for your arrival? Rutgers claims that you agree with him contrary to your telegram.

[signed] Lenin.

* See above, p. 49 of the Collection. —Ed.